The Jeff-alytics Podcast
Can data uncover the real story of crime and justice in America?
Jeff Asher—nationally recognized crime data analyst, co-founder of AH Datalytics, co-creator of the Real Time Crime Index, and author of the Jeff-alytics Substack—sits down with policymakers, academics, journalists, and everyday people to reveal what the numbers actually show. Each episode challenges the myths we believe, exposes the gap between headlines and reality, and asks: what happens when we finally see crime clearly?
New episodes drop every other week! Visit ahdatalytics.com to learn more.
The Jeff-alytics Podcast
Latest Episodes
1,000 Levers For Reducing Gun Violence With Rob Wilcox
The national conversation around gun violence tends to revolve around what laws should be passed next. But a lot of the work of reducing violence doesn’t happen in Congress. It happens in cities, hospitals, community organizations, police de...
Building Towards Certainty Rather Than Severity With Greg Newburn
For decades, the response to rising crime has been fairly predictable: increase penalties, increase sentences, and hope it works. My guest today says that framework misses the point.Greg Newburn is the Director of Criminal Just...
Why Accountability and Prevention Don't Have to Be in Conflict with Neera Tanden
Most debates about crime policy are framed as a choice. You’re either tough on crime or you’re not. You focus on enforcement or prevention. And the answers tend to sound simple.But once you move from talking about crime to actu...
The Past, Present, and Future of Gun Violence Reduction with Senator Chris Murphy
What actually drives change on an issue like gun violence? Is it policy? Culture? Policing? Or something harder to measure?To help answer that question I’m turning to Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Senator Murphy has been...
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Crime, Policy, and What Has Changed with Charles Fain Lehman
Answering the why of crime trends is frequently much harder than answering the what. The same data inevitably leads to very different explanations depending on how you interpret them and what you think is driving them, and there are rarely “rig...
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